Excellent news!  It's been a long and difficult process.  Thank you everyone
for your very hard work!  It's great to see this goal completed!  

Ron Teitelbaum

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-dev-
> bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Andreas Raab
> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 3:32 AM
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Subject: [squeak-dev] Squeak joins the Software Freedom Conservancy
> 
> [see also
> http://board.squeak.org/2010/07/01/squeak-joins-the-software-freedom-
> conservancy/
> ]
> 
> Squeak joins the Software Freedom Conservancy
> 
> The Squeak Oversight Board is excited to announce that Squeak is now a
> member of the Software Freedom Conservancy[1]. The Software Freedom
> Conservancy is an organization composed of Free and Open Source Software
> (FOSS) projects. As a fiscal sponsor for FOSS projects, the Conservancy
> provides member projects with free financial and administrative
> services, but does not involve itself with technological and artistic
> decisions.
> 
> By joining the Conservancy, Squeak obtains the benefits of a formal
> legal structure while keeping focused on software development. The
> benefits of joining the Conservancy include, most notably, the ability
> to collect donations and protection from personal liability for the
> developers of the project. Another benefit of joining the Conservancy is
> we can use it to hold assets, which are managed by the Conservancy on
> behalf of and at the direction of the Squeak Oversight Board. The
> Conservancy is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization, so member projects
> can receive tax-deductible donations to the extent allowed by law.
> 
> [1] http://sfconservancy.org/overview/
>